Walking through Edinburgh’s West End, early one winter morning, I spied a familiar face. The unmistakable features of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle looked down upon me from an impressive Victorian town house ...
Arthur Conan Doyle’s second Sherlock Holmes novel, The Sign of the Four, was first published in Lippincott’s Monthly magazine in 1890. Now, the author’s handwritten manuscript of the book—the only ...
On June 26, Sotheby’s New York will be presenting “The Library of Dr. Rodney P. Swantko,” an auction that will include many rare first editions including the only handwritten draft of Sir Arthur Conan ...
To fans of Sherlock Holmes, the setup feels familiar: A wealthy spinster is bludgeoned to death in her Glasgow dining room one foggy night while her maid is out buying the evening newspaper. The ...
William Roughead wasn’t the kind of writer who liked to indulge in outrage. The Glasgow lawyer, who began attending murder trials in 1889 at the age of 19—for curiosity’s sake until it became his ...
No one says, “Elementary, my dear Watson,” in the new novel “Arthur & George,” by British writer Julian Barnes, despite the fact that its main character is none other than Arthur Conan Doyle, creator ...
In 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle published his first full-length detective mystery novel, "A Study in Scarlet," in London's paperback magazine, Beeton's Christmas Annual. In it, he introduced readers ...
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